Masdevallia priscillana Luer & V.N.M.Rao 2005
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Priscilla's Masdevallia [Ecuadorian wife of Orchid Nurseryman Current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador without locality as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract near the base, stout, triquetrous, congested, abbreviated, successively single few flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, as long to longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by a stout peduncle that exceeds the leaf. The flowers are produced successively in a very short, congested raceme with the pedicel no longer than the floral bract. Although the flower superficially resembles M bicolor the sepals are rigid and deeply connate into an obovoid flower. The tails of the lateral sepals are short, thick and directed forward. The petals are narrowly ovate and the lip is trilobulate at the apex." Luer 2005
Synonyms Alaticaulia priscillana (Luer & V.N.M.Rao) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide; A Treasure of Masdevallia Vol 28 Luer & Dalstroem 2006 watercolor fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Alaticaulia priscillana; Orchidaceae Masdevallia and Affiliates Dodson & Luer 2009 as Alaticaulia priscilliana drawing fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide; Orchids Masdevallia with its segregates including Dracula Zelenko 2014 photo fide;
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